Category: Nonfiction & Satire

Any writer’s who’s a real writer will feel the pain of sitting at their desk, their brain pumping and flowing with ideas — when suddenly, to their absolute horror, they don’t remember how to get any of it out on paper. It is the dreaded writer’s block, the scourge of the Seven Pens (heh —…

Last night, I couldn’t sleep. My taekwondo instructor had asked earlier in the day if I could help him teach at a secondary school he had recently opened. A colleague whom he had also met last year — I will call him DD — had unfortunately not worked out, and my instructor needed me and…

As an introvert, I pride myself on seeing things about people that they may have never even noticed about themselves. Little habits that they do when they’re nervous, the way their look when they’re secretly pleased, realizing that someone’s not nearly as cruel as you thought. Unfortunately, as wise and all-seeing as you feel,…

Have you ever worked on a project so long, you’ve forgotten how you started it all? I guess you could say that’s how I feel about both my writing career and the novel that I’m currently scratching out. Yesterday, I took a daytrip to Macon, Georgia to attend the Crossroads Writers Conference. Since…

Months and months and months ago, I was having a conversation with my friend Jen about how short Mitch Albom’s novels are. “I don’t know how he manages to put so much emotion into so little a space,” she said, and I agreed, awed—and maybe just a smidgen jealous.The day after that conversation, I…

If you consider yourself a true fan of martial arts, you’ve seen this done at least once, be it in movies or in passing a group of students on your way to your destination: The students are standing in an empty field, perfectly aligned if in groups, isolated if alone. They’re moving, performing kicks, and…

Look out; it’s an adolsecent monster obstructing unadorability! Over the last couple of weeks, I spent at least two hours a day writing in my novel. When I haven’t been writing or going to work, I read The Help, Seraphina, and The Secret Garden. I’ve also been playing my video games and watching…

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This blog is a chronicle of my struggles to observe the world as an introverted, highly sensitive person, while balancing the endless thoughts in my head with the loveliness of reality. Oh, and I love reading, writing, and pro-wrestling, too. :)